Section B: Poetry: Power and Conflict

Notes

• A Guide to Structure, Form, Rhythm, Meter

• Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes

• Checking Out Me History - John Agard

• Exposure - Wilfred Owen

• Kamikaze - Beatrice Garland

• London - William Blake

• My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

• Ozymandias - Percy Shelley

• Poppies - Jane Weir

• Remains - Simon Armitage

• Storm On The Island - Seamus Heaney

• The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson

• The Emigree - Carol Rumens

• The Man He Killed - Poetry

• The Prelude - William Wordsworth - Poetry

• Tissue - Imtiaz Dharker

• War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy

Additional Reading & Videos

• Ozymandias – English Timeline

• London – Analysis by Clare Crossman

• London – English Timeline

• London – in depth analysis

• The Prelude – The full version

• The Prelude – Additional notes

• My Last Duchess – Different readings

• Storm on the Island – Analysis of the Context, Form and Structure

• Remains – Simon Armitage’s Official Website

• Remains – Simon Armitage’s Video on Remains

• Kamikaze – How Japan’s youth see the Kamikaze pilots of WW2

• Kamikaze – some supplementary